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Hester Lacey

Shrinking Britain

Fancy a career change? Why not be a psychologist? It seems everyone else is . . . Psychology is now

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Small rubber thing? Main squeeze

Feel that your pulling power is waning? Buy a stress ball

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The secret life of Labour voters

The polls tell us they are out there in their millions - so why is it so hard to…

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Bath chairs out, Blair in

Hester Lacey finds genteel Bournemouth, where Labour meets this year, trying to update itself

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The strange dearth of dead women

Obituaries today reflect a past where women stood by their men

By Hester Lacey

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